For those who have tested with Family Tree DNA (FTDNA): 1) Log into your personal FTDNA page. At the bluish/blackish navigation bar at the top, point to "My Account" and left click "Beneficiary Information." It asks for name, phone, and email. You don't have to put that. You can put your name, phone and email on the "Name" line. But please, please, please, put "Any Azores Admin" on one of those lines. Or if you are in multiple projects (Azores, Madeira, Smith, and Jones, for example), put "Any FTDNA Admin." When there are new advances are made 50 or 75 years from now and an admin wants to upgrade your DNA, you have left a legacy (and your permission) for them to do so.
2) If you are a proxy (managing) someone else's kit: Log into that person's personal FTDNA page. At the bluish/blackish navigation bar at the top, point to "My Account" and left click "Contact Information." In the last name field, put (contact is ____) with your name in the blank. Here's my dad's page: First Name: George Last Name: Mello (contact is Cheri) Here's what appears on other's matches: George Mello (contact is Cheri) When people email me, I don't get "You match me." Match who? In addition to being an admin, I manage a few kits personally. It's most likely one of my parents on the Family Finder test, but I don't know which parent. Adding in (contact ___) helps eliminate a lot of confusion! FOR THOSE THINKING ABOUT DNA TESTING: FTDNA said they would run a sale around Father's Day. That is coming up on Sunday (in America), so I'm expecting a sale to start very soon. I don't know what they are putting on sale. They said some upgrades. Hopefully they will have new kit orders too. Many times it's the same as what they had on sale at Jamboree. Those were Y-DNA 37 for $129, Full mtDNA Sequence for $189, Family Finder for $189, and some combination kits (of the above). If you have your ancestry back about 200 years on most of your lines, please consider testing. If you do a lot of collateral research (collecting the siblings, children, grandchildren of your ancestors), please consider testing. We have people in the DNA project who have a pai incognito line or whose ancestors immigrated in the mid-1800s where not as much info was obtained as in 1900 and later. You could be the key to overcoming their brick wall! Cheri Mello Family Tree DNA Administrator (volunteer) Azores DNA project -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
